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The commission of inquiry into the twins’ case will send a statement to the Bar Association following the opinion sent by the mother’s lawyer, Wilson Bicalho, to justify confidentiality.
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The decision was taken at a meeting of panels and coordinators shortly after the hearing, via videoconference, of the son of the President of the Republic, Nuno Rebelo de Sousa, and conveyed to journalists by the president of the commission of inquiry into the case of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins treated with the drug Zolgensma at the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon.
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Rui Paulo Sousa said that “a response will be prepared to the documents that Dr. Wilson Bicalho presented to the commission.”
The deputy from Chega considered that the charge from the Bar Association that was sent to the lawyer also “did not allow him to make the statement that he initially made” at the beginning of the hearing.
It is in this sense that the commission will prepare a joint declaration or a joint participation to be referred, in principle, to the Order,” he said.
Asked if it would be a complaint, Rui Paulo Sousa said that the commission still “will analyze the contentwhether there will even be a concrete complaint or simply a position of the commission in relation to the statements made and, in essence, the shape Dr. Wilson Bicalho led the hearing proceedings.”
“But only after reaching an agreement on this response will it be possible voted in plenary [da comissão] and will be referred, in principle, to the Bar Association,” he said.
Regarding Nuno Rebelo de Sousa’s refusal to answer any questions from the deputies, the president of the parliamentary commission of inquiry stated that this issue was not addressed at the meeting of the board of directors and coordinators on Wednesday.
You The parliamentary groups had to analyse what happened today [esta quarta-feira] here at the hearing,” he said, pointing out that this is a different issue because Nuno Rebelo de Sousa “indicated from the beginning that this would be his position here today.” [esta quarta-feira] at the hearing, that he would not speak.”
Rui Paulo Sousa said that a request for “possible breach of confidentiality to be able to make specific statements on some of the issues which, according to you, should be raised.”
Questioned about the relevance of the commission given that there are numerous cases of declarants who refuse to give clarifications, the president defended that “any commission that aims to discover the truth about specific events that occurred It is never redundant“.
Until the commission has begun its work, There was no known defendant”he said, also mentioning that this parliamentary commission of inquiry has a “political objective.”
The lawyer of the mother of the Portuguese-Brazilian twins submitted on Tuesday to the parliamentary commission of inquiry the opinion of the Portuguese Bar Association (OA) justifying her refusal to make statements in the Assembly of the Republic.
Wilson Bicalho appeared before the commission of inquiry in Parliament on Friday and made an initial statement, but refused to answer questions, citing professional secrecy. The lawyer said he had asked the OA for an opinion to lift the secrecy and that it had been rejected.
Is position It was criticised by the parties and the hearing was suspended even before the time was up to question the first party, Chega, without resuming.
Source: Observadora
